Ornaments Quotes - Page 4

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament.

As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.

A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear.

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.

God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.